Post-conflict and Transitional Justice in Colombia: Results of our Experience

This study seeks to establish the existing relationship between post-conflict and transitional justice, integrating both the conceptualization of national and international specialists and the historical and empirical data from societies in transition. The purpose is to analyze the Colombian case using these references as starting points, in order to establish whether the country is in a post-conflict situation and to establish the current result of the application of transitional justice strategies encoded in the "Ley de Justicia y Paz" (Ley 975 de 2005). In this way, the research integrates theoretical and factual elements, in order to produce normative recommendations for the future implementation of transitional strategies, using the equilibrium between politics and law as a regulating criterion and, specially, giving a more active role to victims and civil society.